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Re: Underestimating the Trailer
I also think that the idea about asking a professional truck driver or accomplished person in terms of backing up with a trailer. I luckily have my very own Dad for that but unfortunatly for me my dad is very busy right now being Scoutmaster owning his own business and with the recent snow storm neither of those are going well but I still appreciate the idea.
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Re: Underestimating the Trailer
Sure 'nuff. We had about 1/2" of ice on EVERYTHING in Naples, so we had the day off from school. By eleven it had all melted, so I spent the day going from hardware store to hardware store to get everything needed to build the field elements.
Well, except for FRP. But anyway, back on topic, I think that freaking out too much over the slipperiness and trailer, instead of some level of 'going with the flow', will be at least as harmful to a team. Of course, figuring out what the appropriate level of freaking out about *anything* is always the main challenge of FIRST, isn't it? Patrick |
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Re: Underestimating the Trailer
It shouldn't really matter, underestimating the trailer, because we are all at the same disadvantage.
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Re: Underestimating the Trailer
How many teams have built a trailer (or trailer analog) and practiced with it?
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Quite a few I suppose, we made a makeshift one, but it is quite easy to make if you don't get to technical.
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Re: Underestimating the Trailer
More than that - you've got to have a big enough gap in your rear bumper so that the trailer tongue doesn't hit the edge side of your bumper.
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We took our 2007 bot and modified it for the rover wheels. That is our current practice setup. |
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The trailer/bot bumpers should contact before the trailer tongue touches. |
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